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Share a dashboard, look or block to the Library

Save a dashboard, its look or one of its blocks as a Library item and a file you can give to someone, then submit it to the public Denframe Library for review.

You’ll have

Your design on the Library’s Shared from your dashboards shelf, a .denframepack file to share, and, once accepted, a Library listing that reads By (your publisher name) · reviewed by Denframe.

You’ll need
  • A dashboard you made: create your first dashboard.
  • To submit to the public Library: a GitHub account, since the submission is a public GitHub issue.

Follow these steps in your own Denframe. This website never connects to your household, your accounts or your devices, and never asks for your credentials.

  1. Open Save to library

    Open the dashboard in the editor, open the menu beside its name, and choose Save to library….

  2. Choose what to share

    Under What to share, choose:

    • The whole dashboard: its blocks, where they sit and its look, as a layout.
    • Its look: how it looks, without its blocks.
    • One block: one of its blocks as it looks here; choose it under Block.

  3. Name it and choose a licence

    Fill in Name, Handle, Version, Licence (CC0 1.0, MIT or CC BY 4.0), Publisher and Attribution. Attribution is required for CC BY 4.0, and it is shown as the credit wherever the design is used.

    The handle is your author namespace. local shares without a public handle; denframe is reserved. To submit to the public Library, use your own handle: a local item has to be saved again under it.

    A dashboard with market symbols shows a switch that includes them; turn it off to leave the symbols out.

  4. Read what the file leaves out

    Before saving, the sheet lists what is left out for whoever uses the file: dashboard and source names, local IDs and bindings, source queries and locations, and private text, media and cached data. They connect their own sources. Learning cards need their activities added separately.

    If the design is an unchanged official release, the sheet offers Download original file and, when the host has them, Download signed proof or Download signed file, so someone else can check it offline.

    Choose Save to Yours.

  5. Download the file

    Saved to Yours offers the .denframepack file to download and Open in the Library. In the Library, the item sits on Shared from your dashboards. Give the file to someone directly, or submit it to the public Library.

  6. Submit it on the website

    Open Submit an asset on the Denframe website. It has three steps:

    • Check: choose or drop your .denframepack. It is checked in your browser against the published format, and nothing is uploaded. A file over 128 MB is refused.
    • Describe: the name, your handle (it must be the one in the file’s id), the licence, credits for anything you didn’t make yourself, whether any of it was made with AI, for a learning activity who it is for, and that you have the rights to share it.
    • Submit: download a .zip copy (GitHub takes a .zip but not a .denframepack), open the prefilled GitHub issue, tick the rights box there and attach the .zip.

    A file over 20 MB goes as a pull request with its sources instead; the page walks you through it.

    The issue is public: anyone can read it and see your GitHub name. It carries only a summary of the checks, the id, version, size and SHA-256, and what you write. Read the terms and the privacy note first.

  7. Check it worked

    The item is on your Library’s Shared from your dashboards shelf, and the file opens in another Denframe. After you submit, the review answers on the GitHub issue: it checks the file, its words, pictures, sounds and credits again, and a person decides. An accepted item is listed as By (your publisher name) · reviewed by Denframe.

If it doesn’t work

Save to Yours is greyed out

Wait for the sheet to finish reading what the file leaves out, then check that the name, handle and publisher are filled in, that the handle is not denframe, and that CC BY 4.0 has an attribution.

The sheet says it can’t be shared

Something in the dashboard can’t be exported. Try sharing its look or a single block, or use Support with the message.

The website says the handle is reserved or local

Save the design again with your own handle; denframe/ and local/ ids can’t be submitted.

The website refuses the file

Check that it is the .denframepack Denframe saved, under 128 MB. The page says which check failed; the format reference explains each.

Your words were shortened for GitHub

Copy the full text from the page and paste it as a comment once the issue is open.

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